yes for sure cuz forums are full of pants sniffers who will try to exploit any found weakness to discredit originality.
Get into it, play Blood. But all the theory you can find dont compare to what you have to do before getting to actually test your dk among all puggers.
Develop your character first doing all the covenant stuff for renowns and Korthia bs dailies and weekly to update your conduits to 226.
Often return to your spellbook and soulbind trees+talents and read again all the tooltips, including your unused conduits, as you progress and get your actionbars or keybindings sorted out. Just to stay on your toes with your spec.
Solo Torghast as Blood and put yourself in trouble. Get Cinders enough for a minimum of two legendaries for 9.2 (at the least 2 cuz you may want to try other legendaries than the ââparryââ one, which is not bad. Also, torghast, use your control undead ability and look for the big trouble-maker, that can help.
Get your daily earning of conquest in BG to buy Vers gear + crit.
Torghast-solo and BGs will sharpen your survival skills. That is more important than talents and conduits as you should research different builds with everything there is at your disposal.
Know what to use for Single target vs Cleave vs Multi as for dmg
You can separate all that is at your service as for abilities. But hereâs a quick breakdown
There is a 2min CD for Parry with a Legendary associated to it
There is Bone Shield that gives Armor
Bone shield (mitigation) uses same resource needed to heal yourself with Death Strike. So you have to decide. Using runes for armor, or using runes to build runic powers for healing. One is a simple use of your rune, the other is a two-step action.
Death Strike also applies Blood Shield (absorb) and youâll constantly have to work for that resource if you commit to that build. Hence why that post you read talks about the tier-set, saying i may be forced to follow the line and change my whole build.
So you see⌠you always walk that line, what to do with your Runic Powers. Mitigation âŚor⌠Heal+absorb (your mastery)
You didnt ask for the rotation but i didnt include half of it anyhoo. I only wanted to put some light on this spec, and encourage you to play it.
If you know the core system, all the rest is bonus for you to squeeze in and enjoy.
A DS build (in the hand of an experienced machine) is excellent but you are bound to it and noobs die if they dont take Necropolis, when they keep chain pulling until they aggro the mother bird in DoS for instance, or when healer have no more juice to help.
Since you mentioned me in your post, Iâll tell you I like to count on Ossuary and Blood Tap to have all the Runic Powers i can to use Bonestorm. With all the other goodies and lots of Stamina with its Condensed Anima Sphere conduit (4.5% @ 226), iâm good without ever worrying about the Death Strike storyline.
I heal less, i do more dmg. Healer heals more, do less dmg.
But some healers dont do any dmg so, idc theyâre happy throwing me a real heal once in a while.
Now that i practiced something else, i better understand the whole picture than if i only read and applied what 1 individual wrote for millions (main sites promotes the same build, no variances? The agenda of them influencers are mind buggling me. But they sure created enough content around DS blizz maybe had no choice to make a tier-set about it so no one starts throwing rocks at them. But still, hereâs a lousy monotone boring boo for ya blizz. boooooooo for making only on tier-set.
If you go on Raider. io webpage, there is a tab called Learn. You can read the section ââKnow your tankââ to learn good stuff. DeathStrike is there called the CORE ability. But it dont have to be.
For sure play DK. Play healer too, to compare yourself